Mine

  1. Vonnegut, specifically “Cat’s Cradle” (I know he’s a comrade, but I didn’t find that out until a decade after I read any of his work)

  2. Ursula LeGuin

  3. Kafka

  4. Camus

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Nietzsche is great, read up on eternal recurrence if you want to stop thinking about him as a nihilist.

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Isn’t the whole thing with nihilism that it’s not about being an edgy mcedgelord, but recognizing that there are no authentic external sources of wisdom and you ultimately have to decide for yourself what your beliefs and convictions are?

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this is true, and nihilism is something to overcome according to Nietzsche. Since “God is dead” you must look to something else, for me, it’s Marxism.

I was imprecise in my wording, I just wanted to convey his philosophy as life-affirming.

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